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Kaiser Bill! - A New Look at Imperial Germany's Last Emperor, Wilhelm II 1859-1941 (Paperback)
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Kaiser Bill! - A New Look at Imperial Germany's Last Emperor, Wilhelm II 1859-1941 (Paperback)
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Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) was the last German
Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and
the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was
the eldest grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to
many monarchs and princes of Europe, three notable contemporary
relations being his first cousins King George V of the United
Kingdom, Marie of Romania, Queen consort of Romania and second
cousin to Tsar Nicholas II of the House of Romanov, the last ruler
of the Russian Empire before the Russian Revolution of 1917 which
deposed the monarchy.He became monarch in 1888 and ruled in peace
for twenty-five years. Wilhelm's father had been the hero of three
wars and his mother the Princess Royal of Great Britain. When his
father died prematurely of throat cancer, Wilhelm succeeded him at
age twenty-nine and became the icon of the new 'Wilhelminian' age.
Germany excelled in commerce, agriculture, trade, science, cars,
the arts, and medicine. Already having Continental Europe's
greatest army, Wilhelm set about winning world power via overseas
colonies and the building of a vast Imperial High Seas Fleet that
rivalled Britain's.Eventually, he was defeated by the combined
forces of the UK, US, France and Russia, and driven into exile by
the red revolution. He remained politically active in exile,
pressing for a return to the monarchy up to the time of his death
in 1941.This is a fresh look at a much maligned figure, including
his relationships with Bismarck, Hindenburg, Tirpitz, King Edward
VII and Tsar Nicholas II, all on the precipice of global change.
Was Wilhelm a visionary, a fool, or both?
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